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The security body underscored that Pakistan and its armed forces remained fully capable and prepared to defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity against any misadventure, as clearly demonstrated by its measured yet resolute response to India’s reckless incursion in February 2019.

“India’s belligerent measures have vindicated the Two-Nation Theory as well as the apprehensions of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, as encapsulated in the 1940 Pakistan Resolution, which continues to echo the sentiments of the complete Pakistani nation. The Pakistani nation remains committed to peace, but will never allow anyone to transgress its sovereignty, security, dignity and their inalienable rights.”

The National Security Committee observed that Kashmir remained an unresolved dispute between Pakistan and India as recognized through multiple UN resolutions.

“Pakistan continues to support the right of self-determination of the Kashmiri people. The continued Indian state oppression, abrogation of statehood, political and demographic gerrymandering, has persistently led to an organic backlash from the people of IIOJK, which perpetuates cycles of violence,” it said.

The participants believed that India’s systemic persecution of minorities, particularly Muslims, had become more pervasive with attempts at forced passage of Waqf Bill the latest one to marginalize Muslims across India.

“India must resist the temptation to exploit such tragic incidents to its advantage and take full responsibility for its failure to provide security to the people.”

The committee unequivocally condemned terrorism in all its forms and manifestations and that Pakistan was the world’s front-line state against terrorism, having suffered immense human and economic losses.

“Indian attempts to inject volatility in the environment along Pakistan’s eastern borders is aimed at distracting Pakistan’s counter-terrorism efforts. In the absence of any credible investigation and verifiable evidence, attempts to link the Pahalgam attack with Pakistan are frivolous, devoid of rationality and defeat logic,” the committee said.

The NSC said that India’s worn-out narrative of victimhood could not obfuscate its own culpability in fomenting terrorism on Pakistan’s soil, nor could it distract attention from its systematic and state sponsored oppression and human rights violations in IIOJK.

“Contrary to Indian claims, Pakistan has in its custody incontrovertible proof of Indian-sponsored terrorism in Pakistan, including the confession of a serving Indian Navy officer, Commander Kulbhushan Jadhav, who remains a living testament to India’s state-sponsored terrorist activities.”

The National Security Committee deplored the implicit threat contained in the Indian statement of April 23 and urged the international community to remain mindful of India’s state sponsored extraterritorial assassinations or attempts on foreign soil.

It said that Pakistan had recently exposed such Indian heinous acts along-with various other states with undeniable evidence. Pakistan will pursue all those responsible, planners and perpetrators alike and ensure that justice is served. Any threat to Pakistan’s sovereignty and to the security of its people will be met with firm reciprocal measures in all domains, the NSC resolved.

The top security body asked India to refrain from its reflexive blame game and cynical staged managed exploitation of incidents like Pahalgam to further its narrow political agenda which served only to inflame tensions and obstruct the path to peace and stability in the region

Extremely irresponsible warmongering Indian state-controlled media, fueling volatility in the regional calculus is reprehensive, which requires serious introspection, it added.